Prime Minister Narendra Modi waved to the Assamese Bihu dancers dressed of their conventional attires to participate in an try on the Guinness Book of World Records at Sarusajai Stadium in Guwahati on 14 April 2023.
| Photo Credit: Ritu Raj Konwar
GUWAHATI
Nagas of Assam have condemned the “racist” track in the course of the Bihu performance that created a world record on April 13.
About 11,300 feminine dancers and male drummers had assembled for the “largest Bihu performance at a single venue” to create two world data acknowledged by Guinness. The 15-minute performance was organised on the Sarusajai Stadium in Guwahati.
One of the songs used for the record-breaking present, nonetheless, didn’t go down properly with the Naga communities.
After the All Assam Naga Welfare Society (AANWS), the All Assam Tangsa Students’ Union slammed the use of the “racist song” that known as the Nagas okora, that means silly or dumb. They additionally deplored the use of the phrase Nagini within the track, which apparently means ‘Naga woman’ however is construed as being likened to a snake.
“We have noticed that Naga communities have been insulted in the lyrics of the song using the words like okora Noga, Nagini, etc.,” AANWS president Shompha Wangsu and common secretary Manto Konyak mentioned in a press release.
“The sentiments of Naga people living in Assam since time immemorial are hurt by a Bihu song performed by Bihu exponent Ranjit Gogoi at the event,” the Tangsa college students’ physique mentioned.
Tangsa is a Naga group dwelling in areas straddling Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.
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Videos of Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and different dignitaries becoming a member of in when the “objectionable” track was sung have gone viral on standard and social media in Nagaland, attracting condemnation.
Many in Assam have additionally criticised the “poor choice of song” for a world record-breaking performance and known as for a evaluate of songs that denigrate tribal individuals or hill dwellers.
Officials of Assam’s Cultural Affairs Department, which organised the occasion, mentioned the track was a standard one and the “intention was not to hurt the Naga community”.
About 2.5 lakh individuals belonging to 10 Naga communities are unfold throughout 11 districts of Assam.
